Gareth Barry Quotes

Leadership is a lot of hard work. I hoped, when I was younger, that I would just be a natural leader or that it was something that was innate, but it is really a learned skill.

I could never be a manager. All I have is natural ability.

A good leader doesn't get stuck behind a desk.

When you're a manager you always have tunnel vision at certain times.

Being a manager is kneading people.

Managers are driving the ship, so to speak, without actually being on the pitch, so every manager I've worked under here definitely deserves credit.

There are people who are better managers than I am. I aspire to be a really good manager, but it's not my natural personality to do the same thing for 14 hours a day. I have a lot of different interests. I really like product and strategy and business strategy, and I think I'm not bad at it.

I'm someone who takes on information quite well, so there's maybe a path into management. But I see what successful managers have to go through to get to that level - it's a completely different ball game - so I think I'll cross that bridge when I get there.

Leadership and management are not synonymous.

Where visionaries can be good at persuasion, CEOs are good at wielding authority. Visionaries transcend organizations, resources, and current realities, while CEOs master them.

Being a manager is about getting into the minds of the people you represent.

A manager is responsible for the application and performance of knowledge.

Well, the first quality of being a good leader is you have to be able to follow. See, a good leader can't just be the leader all the time, I have to be able to follow.

Leadership is working with goals and vision; management is working with objectives.

Leadership is a way of thinking, a way of acting and, most importantly, a way of communicating.

The key to being a good manager is keeping the people who hate me away from those who are still undecided.

I've got an opinion on everything, so I should go into management.

I should have just become a manager.

Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting somebody else to do the work.

I think management is about just that - managing people via man-to-man skills.

To be an effective leader, you have to have a manipulative streak - you have to figure out the people working for you and give each tasks that will take advantage of his strength.

I'm not really a management-type person. It doesn't suit my personality to be bossing people around.

If I have one skill as a manager, I can make things extremely clear.

A leader is the one who can outline the broad vision and the direction, and say here's where we are going to go, here's why we need to go there, and here's how we are going to get there. A manager is the one who actually gets up under the hood and tunes the carburetor.

I am learning how to delegate and how to empower people.